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WWF King of the Ring '88
| Date: Sun, Oct 16th 1988 | Pay Per View: no |
| Venue: Providence Civic Center, Providence, Rhode Island | Promotion: WWF |
| Attendance: 6,700 |
Matches for King of the Ring '88
| no. | match | duration | match type | title(s) | rating | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ken Patera | def. (pin) | Nikolai Volkoff | 10:20 | |||
| 2 | Ted DiBiase | def. (pin) | Brutus Beefcake | 07:32 | |||
| 3 | Hercules | draw (DCO) | Bad News Brown | 06:05 | |||
| 4 | Randy Savage | def. (pin) | Virgil | 05:43 | |||
| 5 | Ron Bass | def. (DQ) | The Barbarian | 07:02 | |||
| 6 | Shawn Michaels | def. (pin) | Danny Davis | 03:37 | |||
| 7 | The Red Rooster | def. (pin) | Marty Jannetty | 11:00 | |||
| 8 | Iron Mike Sharpe | def. (pin) | Boris Zhukov | 06:27 | |||
| 9 | Jim Duggan | def. | Dino Bravo | 08:43 | flag | ||
| 10 | Ron Bass | def. (pin) | Shawn Michaels | 07:39 | |||
| 11 | Ted DiBiase | def. (pin) | Ken Patera | 05:42 | |||
| 12 | The Red Rooster | def. (sub) | Iron Mike Sharpe | 03:27 | |||
| 13 | Randy Savage | def. (pin) | The Red Rooster | 07:21 | |||
| 14 | Ted DiBiase | def. (forfeit) | Ron Bass | ||||
| 15 | Ted DiBiase | def. (CO) | Randy Savage | 06:11 | WWF King of the Ring (title change) | ||